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You Are Already Dying

By Joan Halifax — 2019

The most profound meditation, says Joan Halifax, is contemplating the certainty of your own death.

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Living the Life You Wish to Live

Stephen and Ondrea Levine, counselors and meditation teachers, sit down with psychotherapist Barbara Platek to speak about easing the transition from life to death.

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Tricycle
2009
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Welcome to the Brink of Everything

Every day, I get closer to the brink of everything. We’re all headed that way, of course, even when we’re young, though most of us are too busy with Important Matters to ponder our mortality.

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Parker J. Palmer
2018
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Dial Up the Magic of This Moment: Philosopher Joanna Macy on How Rilke Can Help Us Befriend Our Mortality and Be More Alive

Philosopher Joanna Macy on how Rilke can help us befriend our mortality and be more alive: “Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.”

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Maria Popova
2014
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What We Can Learn from the Dying – Stephen Levine

What people do [when faced with their own death] is to begin looking into their own hearts and into the eyes of those with whom they share their lives. And all too often they find that these aren’t places they’ve looked very deeply before.

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Awaken.com
2019
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Opening to Death

We will have to give up the notion that death is catastrophe, or detestable, or avoidable, or even strange. We will need to learn more about the cycling of life in the rest of the system, and about our connection to the process.

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Stephen Levine
2013
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Thich Nhat Hanh’s Final Mindfulness Lesson: How to Die Peacefully

“Letting go is also the practice of letting in, letting your teacher be alive in you,” says a senior disciple of the celebrity Buddhist monk and author.

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Eliza Barclay
2019
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Can Science Help Us Deal with Death?

The fear of death always comes at or near the top of people’s worst fears. Some psychologists believe that this is such a potent fear, we push it down into the subconscious in order to avoid it.

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Deepak Chopra
2017
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Preparing to Die

Death is a journey into the unknown, but like any journey it goes better if you’re prepared. Andrew Holecek offers meditations and teachings from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition to help you prepare for the end of life—and what comes next.

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Andrew Holecek
2017
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Death-Positive Movement